I tried to put www.simutrans.com's grass background image to forum. What do you think? :D
(http://i.imgur.com/psuEP.jpg)
EDIT: Oh, this is my 100th post. :D
Looks nice. But at the corners is a dark green!?
Quote from: sojo on March 13, 2012, 06:15:45 PM
Looks nice. But at the corners is a dark green!?
Dark blue. It is forum's default theme image. It can be fixed tough.
Look at the last border image below:
http://forum.simutrans.com/Themes/default/images/theme/main_block.png
I think the ground texture webpage background makes the page look dated and old.
I can't really recall the last time I've seen background images used on a webpage.
but I do like the how the green background matches the banner.
I saw few not so long, but they had a very light texture, that almost look plain.
Simtropolis (http://www.simtropolis.com/) is the only one I can remember now. It looks modern and cool.
We should add some nice textured images in those headers that splits the forum areas.
Truth to be said: The Simutrans.com portal needs a revamp. I mean, we need something completely new: new template, fresh visual, up-to-date style, friendly download center, forum and blog integrated, and functional (because editing the links and the pages manually is painful).
TL;DR: We need a new portal, badly.
I think blog.simutrans.com can be used as www.simutrans.com.
About the forum, This forum needs some customization, at least the background. I almost post something to wrong forum. :P
I like the grass;
the blog has indeed a more modern design; but I do not see a very easy way to convert this to a portal. It is a blog software.